On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 16:23:48 +1200, Andreas Löf wrote:
Hi,
You might want to consider what you actually call your internal network. Having a fully qualified domain name like "my machine.local." is a bad idea, it's better to have "mymachine.internal.lan." or "my machine.internal.local.".
You should also consider setting up an DNS server if you have more than a few machines with static addressing, that way you don't have to keep shifting or updating hosts files.
Kind regards,
Andreas
Hi Andreas, Yes, thanks for the advice. I did a bit of research on this sometime ago and talked with our IT guys about not have .local as a TLD. In fact, I thought servername.lan.tesla.co.nz was probably the best option. Unfortunately it was all a bit after the fact and they weren't/aren't interest in changing for now. The default when setting up an Active Directory network is .local. Certainly something to look at during the next major rehash of the system. We do have a DNS server. Cheers, Chris